It keeps getting worse - Manager Intertek Employee Review

1.0
Mar 6, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Four weeks of paid time off when starting (note that it does not roll over each year).

Cons

The company required their professional (non-laboratory) staff to come to the office throughout the COVID-19 pandemic despite their proven ability to work remotely. Any complaints were met with thinly veiled threats of termination - in the middle of a pandemic! Essentially a collection of small companies that compete against each other rather than benefit from their combined size. Subject expertise and intelligence are ignored if not outright ridiculed. Management governs by fear and only expects to hear “yes.” Salary is about 30% below market. Bare minimum annual raises coupled with unreachable bonus targets. Most years bonus targets were not communicated until July. Employee attitude is slightly above what would be expected at a prison camp. No one speaks or even says hello in passing. Building manager uses a telecom system to make announcements that reverberate across a sea of cubical desks to put a finer point on the dystopian environment.

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Cons

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Welcome to the Intertek team! We are happy to have you on board!
2.0
Jun 5, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good group of people in local office.

Cons

Stuck in the past. Unwilling to consider updating methods or procedures. "We've done it this way for 30 years and it has worked." Sales relies upon project engineers to do most of their work for them. When volume of work is slow that becomes the engineers responsibility to go find new clients. Can't reliably pay the most basic of utility bills on time. I've seen the power cut off 2x and the gas this past winter.

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